By H. Alan Seibert and Curtis Hicks Alan Seibert has held leadership positions at the high, middle, and elementary levels in Salem City Schools over a 29 year career and is currently in his 14th school year as Division Superintendent. Read More …
Imagining Personalized Learning as A Mosaic: How District Level Leaders Engaged with Stakeholders to Honor the Power and Complexity of Personalized Learning
Prioritizing Investigation and Choice in Student Learning
While I am definitely a learner in personalized learning, my revelation this week has been that we should “lean away” from unit design and lesson plan design that involves one master planner and “lean into” design that feels less structured, Read More …
Cranberry Science and a Splash of Red
The sun blazed, warming the October morning air. It glinted off the still waters of the cranberry bog, where more than fifty visitors were gathered around several high school students to learn about the harvesting process. This was the scene Read More …
The Thinker: Praise the Tortoise and Recognize the Hare
As human beings, we all possess an ability to think and process information in order to make sense of an idea. Completing a task like this varies with regard to an individual’s speed, accuracy, and success. Take, for example, a Read More …
Feedback and Learning: How Am I Doing?
Disillusioned It’s a bittersweet sting. After brainstorming and modeling, students begin drafting their thoughts. We’re minutes in and the question enters: “Can you take a look at this and let me know how I’m doing?” Don’t get me wrong, I Read More …
The Day the Students Designed Their Test
As an advocate for personalized learning, my perspective is simple: I’m constantly looking for ways to foster learner agency and put students at the center of the learning. To that end, this is the story of a recent experiment with Read More …
Nurturing a “Literacy of Me”
This school year I began to lead a book study on the Quest for Learning: How to Maximize Student Engagement and found myself powerfully reminded that our students need to not only form learning networks in our physical classroom spaces, Read More …
Nurturing the Seeds of Talent and Passion within Learners
When I was twenty years old, I was standing in Benton Hall at Miami University, talking with my education professor after our 7 p.m. night class. While talking with my professor, I remember having a passionate conversation about the importance Read More …
Refocus on Learning, Not Earning
By Jamie Dicks and Julianna Traxler It was two weeks before the school year began, and we were making about 1,248 decisions about how the school year would go and what preparations we would need to make for the upcoming Read More …
How Emergencies Can Recalibrate Our Roles, Priorities, and Perspectives
Emergencies can take your breath away, recalibrating our roles, priorities, and perspectives. I have recently experienced this when an emergency temporarily sidelined my travel and the way in which I meet my obligations to clients. With the onset of my Read More …